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THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[June 18, 1887, 
the "np ide that spring from the individual bulbs to 
or although all the little bulblets attached to 
the bulbs may have been—as they should be—rubbed 
off on being potted, several other breaks will, when 
as they appear, so as to co Ferte the sap stored 
up in the bulbs for eu production of rp vest 
and the ultimate development of fine large flowers 
LAPAGERIAS, 
Tliese are, after the roots have taken well to the 
goil, fı free 
climbing ‘plants. They do well either planted out 
in a shallow, narrow, and well-drained border (such 
as recommended for Tacsonias at p. 706), in a com- 
post consisting of half peat and half fibry loam, with 
: liberal sprinkling of coarse sand added, or in pots 
rained over a trellis, as specimens. Well-flowered 
dictt of L. alba (white) and L. rosea superba (rich 
crimson) are not only very effective hanging over 
се (he ad of "m vases with the ends inserted i in 
in in that e ` The young suckers, which well-to-do 
plants send up freely from their roots, should be 
looked well after, as the establishing of a good plant 
within a given time depends upon the preservation of 
these suckers from the ravages of slugs, &c. Young 
plants may be raised by layering the suckers in sandy 
soil. The Lapageria, unless kept well syringed over- 
head morning and afternoon during the summer 
months, especially if trained under the roof of 
greenhouse or conservatory, is sure to suffer from the 
attacks of red-spider. 'The plants should be kept 
moist at the roots. H. W. W. 
KEW NOTES. 
LANDOLPHIA TLORIDA.— This plant is чел in flower 
in the Palm stove at Kew. A few years ago no 
member of the genus Landolphia inet in the 
Kew collections, but owing to the exertions of Dr. 
(now Sir John) Kirk, H.B.M. Consul at Zanzibar, 
eei of the ote, as well as two or 
r species of the same genus, were received 
tn a iig state. All were propagated and distributed, 
and much information respecting the tropical Afri- 
very im- 
portan ant, but decidedly interesting 
from a hietioulbatal standpoint: It belongs to the 
е sta ovate leaves and large 
in а - 
ability its anlage into some of the topai 
colonies cannot of some importance. Its 
trunk often travels indes the ground looking like a 
large boa constrictor, until it meets with a tree to 
climb up. A good figure of the plant appears in 
Christy's New Commercial Plants, No. 1, and a draw- 
ing from the Kew plant has been prepared for pub- 
lication i in the Botanical Magazine. 
Srrerrocarrpvs Denn, 
In the Sueculent-house at Kew а considerable 
lanted о een 
of 
tes can be done by intelligent travellers. Mr. 
Me one of the colonial surveyors, found fields of 
the Transvaal, and sent t seeds in a letter to Kew. 
е branched inflorescences 
the hybridiser. Before long something will be heard 
of some remarkable crosses which have been effected 
by Mr. Watson at Kew. rs were shown at the 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, June 14 
Ер.] 
OXALIS DRASILIENSIS. 
Several fine pans of this species, certainly one of 
the most handsome in a genus which contributes 
not a few fine plants to British gardens, are in flower 
red-purple colour—remain open the greater part of 
the day. In most of the species they close or refuse 
to open except in full sunlight. [Flowers were also 
shown at South Kensington on June 14. Ep, | 
HILLEBRANDIA SANDWICHENSIS. 
The order Begoniaces, although numerous in 
species, contains but three genera (as the latter are 
understood by Hooker and Bentham), and until the 
last year or so the genus Begonia was the only repre- 
sentative of the order in cultivation. The plant 
mentioned at the head of this note has, however, 
been introduced to Kew, and is now in flower in the 
gonia a-house. Although not so showy as very many 
Begonias, it has striking foliage, and probably will 
become improved (horticulturally) by cultivation and 
hybridisation. Both the male and female flowers 
ve tals, and are whitish in colour. 
d have fr e to nine iei em lobes, which are 
sharply serrated. A ei of the plant will appear 
in the Botanical Magazi 
Dryas ocTOPETALA (THE MOUNTAIN AvENs) 
is now finely in flower on the rockwork at Kew; its 
numerous large solitary white flowers with yellow 
e very effective. "The plants cling to 
the limestone rock, and are well established. This 
mountain plant used to be frequent on the higher 
mountains of Scotland, England, and Ireland, but 
the plants have been torn from their native homes 
to pine away in uncongenial climes, and die from 
bad management in gardens 
PRIMULA JAPONICA 
is also gorgeous in the wild garden, even more so than 
in the Mec i Kew strain of the rich dark 
crimson variety is the finest I have yet seen. e 
varieties with mottled and striped flowers are novel 
but not very striking. у variety of the white 
form is a gem amongst Prim 
The rock garden, taking it ¢ altogether, i is very i 
teresting at the ei time; m choice Атай 
plants are in auty. The жемш seems to 
have suited them река. 
DIANTHUS ALPINUS 
was freely producing its large solitary rose-coloured 
flowers of a peculiarly bright colour, It is one of 
the ү choice rock plants. What a lovely little 
plant for carpeting the surface of the ground, and 
clinging to the rocks is the Arenaria balearica. It 
is now furnished with its pure white flowers—small, 
indeed, but large for the size of the plant. This 
little Sandwort is well known, but it ought to be in 
ev garden. A prone plant to it, which I did 
not see in the rock garden, 
LOBELIA LITTORALIS. 
It is ‚азым to be асч only, but it has 
grown in our roc exposed thoroughly to all 
weathers e the айг dois years; it covers the 
to form a dense carpet. ithosper- 
t lovely of rich blue 
winte n pots and planted out, ben this will 
also iind eme either in the su 
nny, or shady 
dd the en . out-of-doors. e 
н с -fris em lished itself well on 
margin the in of 
lake, front the 
ence Tw pnt ker sape um, and a 
position where ei roots can reach the water, but ene 
base of the plants must be clear above it. Lar 
beds of it would be very ê it Meconopsis Wal- 
lichii (the blue aerar i oppy) has been planted 
in masses in suita amp soil in a partia ^ shaded 
positi They ar yv yet in flower deg ourse, but 
the foliage і is at al times very handsome, the plant 
o be grown in all gardens NM a suitable 
positions: can be found. J. D. 
TREES AND SHRUBS. 
PINUS PARVIFLORA. 
APANESE Conifers are, on the whole, not very 
лабу when brought under cultivation in this 
ountry, but the present tree is an exce he 
rule, it having, after a long and impartial trial, been 
foun be, in every sense of t ord, perfectly 
hardy and well suited for planting in almost any 
part of the British isles. 
The largest and best furnished specimens I have 
seen are growing on a rather dry, gravelly hill, fully 
hen the tree 
the opposite of harsh and stiff, 
lithe, well furnished with арены 
diameter fally "i inch. The male 
ae а highly 
gard мезет 
filled with fine ек поша and а small quan et 
thinly and covered with an inch den 
sandy leaf-mould. The seeds soon with th 
seedlings make rapid progress : 
